.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and also champion of the 2025 National Invitation Tournament will certainly continue to be in Indianapolis as well as be dipped into famous Hinkle Fieldhouse for the second consecutive year.Indianapolis is going to likewise hold the 2026 NIT semifinals as well as champion as part of the combined Branches I, II and also III Men's Basketball Championships recently declared.The 2025 semifinals are going to happen Tuesday, April 1, with the national championship set for Thursday, April 3. Servant University and also the Indiana Athletics Enterprise once more will certainly serve as holds for the occasion.The 88th NIT is going to remain to include a 32-team field with the preliminary, 2nd round as well as quarterfinals played at campus websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will definitely seed simply the best 16 crews (top-four teams in each capsule) and also put the continuing to be 16 staffs chosen into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, each the semifinals as well as championship game were actually offered out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with more than 9,000 present over each nights.Also, the NIT added past males's basketball coach Phil Martelli and Association U.S.A. Partner for Baseball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee beginning with the 2024-25 time.A legend amongst Significant 5 trains, Martelli is actually the winningest instructor in the background of St Joseph's men's basketball. With an all-time document of 444-328 during the course of his 24 years as head instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St Joseph's to the NCAA tournament 7 opportunities and to 6 NIT appeals. In 2003-04, Martelli's group reeled off 27-straight success finishing the regular time unbeaten and also placed leading in the country before being upset in the Atlantic 10 Association quarterfinals. That group at that point gained 3 NCAA competition activities just before shedding to Oklahoma Condition in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Event United States staff in 2016 and also came to be associate administrator for baseball in 2021. Aside from his obligations with both men's and also ladies's basketball, Douglass likewise supplies oversight for females's soccer as well as girls's golf as well as worked as seat of the NCAA Division I Female's Soccer Board for two years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year leader of the guys's basketball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli as well as Douglass will sign up with an NIT board that will definitely be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and entertainment at New Orleans. Various other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are Morgan State Bad Habit President and also Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, and also former Department I men's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and Bob Williams.All NIT video games will definitely be transmitted online across ESPN platforms. For more details on the championship visit ncaa.com/NIT.